FAITH CAPSULE: The life for all is for God, not for any god.

Genesis 3

God created all with His word available to engage as a way of life.
Engaging the word of God is the expected responsibility for all before God.
All should be responsible for living by the word of God.
Responsibility is the price to live for the glory of God.
The apostle Paul speaks to all the reasons to be built up, “So now, brethren, I commend you to God and to the word of His grace, which is able to build you up and give you an inheritance among all those who are sanctified.” (Acts 20:32)
Responsibility before God leads to a relationship with God. 
Responsibility to be living a righteous life before God will count as a believer, just like Abraham. 
James 2:23 records, “…Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.” And he was called the friend of God.” 
Abraham lives responsibly before God, and he has a relationship with God.
Abraham lived by the word of God.
Adam did not live by the word of God.
God gave Adam a word for his responsibility when He said, “And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat; but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” (Genesis 2:16-17)
Adam was not responsible; he was moved by the irresponsible conversation of Eve, his wife, with the serpent (devil). Genesis 3:1-3 recorded the conversation between the serpent and Eve,“Now the serpent was more cunning than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, “Has God indeed said, ‘You shall not eat of every tree of the garden’?” And the woman said to the serpent, “We may eat the fruit of the trees of the garden; but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, ‘You shall not eat it, nor shall you touch it, lest you die.’”  
A failure by Eve for not communicating the word of God with the serpent was an irresponsible conversation, a lack of responsibility that broke up the relationship of Adam and Eve with God. God sent Adam and Eve out of the Garden of Eden.
Jesus demonstrated the responsibility of communicating the word of God to avoid the evil devices at all times.
The same devil approached Jesus, but Jesus responded with the word of God. 
Matthew 4:1-4 records the response of Jesus, “Now when the tempter came to Him, he said, “If You are the Son of God, command that these stones become bread.” But He answered and said, “It is written, ‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God.’”
Responsibility before God demands living by the word of God in every way, not to become a victim of evil.

Prayer for today: Ask that God will enable you to live by His word.